Welcome to June's newsletter. This month we have thrilling tidbits about Next Generation Gaming, the latest review for our Green Party PEB, what our gluers have been busy doing over the last month and a very ambitious bike ride over the Alps...
CLAIRE
Marky's Miles
To support Marky's Charity Fireflies ride through the Alps (starting 16th June), glue have created a Blog which keeps track of his location on a google map. The blog also has Marky’s Twitter feed so he can tweet while his feet peddle frantically for 9 days over some of the most grueling climbs in the world. 90,000ft in total!...
Shovel anyone?
To kick start glue's new regular charity afternoons, a group of gluers went down to Hackney City Farm to lend a hand. As well as transporting lambs!, the most popular task was mucking out the pig stalls - mmm!
glug vs glue
This month Dan, Matt, Ian and sCam from the design team presented a showcase of some of glue's recent design work at glug London, a monthly networking (or notworking) event for designers, creatives and the like.
Green Party
We are pleased to report that the Party Election Broadcast we made for the Green Party got raving reviews on the Guardian's Politics blog, scoring the highest of all the broadcasts with 8/10 for it's 'floating voter-grabbing potential'!
Next Generation Gaming
Nowhere are the competitive principles of a free market economy more clearly present than the gaming industry. Adam Smith would indeed be proud. Clearly spurred on by the Nintendo Wii revolution, Sony and
Microsoft have been beavering away taking it to the next level for a seat at the top of the pile...
3 Things To Make You Smarter
You can now access Facebook on your TV through your XBox avatar, enabling you to share your scores with friends.
(Source: http://lostremote.com)
YouTube have just released YouTube XL, making YouTube accessible on larger screens such as TVs, providing there is a web connection.
(Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2009/jun/03/google-youtube)
Palm have just launched Pre, a new smartphone to rival Apple's iPhone, built by some of Apple's ex-employees - ouch!
(Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8082531.stm)
